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It's been a wacky 1.5 years since we moved from the golden state and while the upper valley is treating us so well, it's a total bummer to miss out on events happening 3000+ miles away. Jen's 2nd baby shower was one such event. Annoying to have to miss such a meaningful party for my old friend and bridesmaid, knowing that it'll probably be awhile until I get to meet little maddy.
Her little sister & mom threw what looked like an awesome party with a super cute theme: letters. The invite asked guests to bring or send in their assigned letter so Jen could compile them to make something like this for her (then unknown gender) baby:
(image from designsponge)
I was assigned with the letter Y and while I was excited about the idea, where could I go with the letter Y? It's such a seemingly uninspired letter.....
Dev got Z:
zig zag. easy.
done.
And now for an insight into my brainspace....
Brainstorming Y:
Yarn
Yodel
Yellow
Yak (but that's slang for "vomit")
Yama (mountain in Japanese)
Yoorknob
What's that? You haven't heard of a yoorknob????
Silly friends, it's when you find an awesome knob and key thing at a Vermont Salvage Place and you try to make it fit your friend's baby shower theme of letters when you were assigned the letter Y.
Duh.
:)
And here's how I personalized it for a belated shower gift:
Wiped down the worn out door plate.
Sketched the letter with a pencil.
Filled in the letter with embossing powder and applied a heat gun to get it all melty.
I did it in sections in case I messed up.
Once that first gold layer was down, I added....glittah!
I may or not have waited until we knew the gender just so I knew whether or not to glitter.
Wrote a little note on the back.
oh, hello there, toes.
Used my fave adhesive to get that knob onto the plate.
Did it make it through the mail, jen?
Bam. Done.
10 comments:
love this. maddy and jack are so lucky to have you as their kasser!
i adore the theme! i might have to borrow that...
and of course, your idea is so super creative!
SUPER cute! I might have to make me one with an S just to have! It's so pretty!
ooooooooooh i love!!!!
i might steal that theme someday if only i can remember it! :)
it DID make it through the mail - and maddy and i absolutely LOVE it!!! i can't wait to get my act together (i love that i'm waiting on myself....) and get all those gorgeous letters on the wall! and then i'll wait on myself to post about it on our blog ;).
we miss you!!!
btw.
i absolutely loved the invitations and the theme for jen's shower! those costanzo ladies know how to put together such beautiful events!!
and - BAM - i got totally called out on how easy my letter was. les, did you know that's the exact "Z" that i sent???
you're kind of a genius.
You are SOOOOO creative!!! LOVE it!!
les. i just made the ampersand and posted it. i think it'll look great with your y and dev's z.
btw, dev, les knew, i sent her a pic! we were discussing that some of the letters are not so cute (i'll fix that) and she needed proof. your letter was in the ADORABLE pile, not the REDO-AS-SOON-AS-I-TAKE-A-PICTURE pile. :)
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